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Travis, je moet een vreemde taal hierop spreken.

Travis, you must speak a foreign language here.

Are you saying that the AirBnB is beautiful? Or that the overall landscape is beautiful? If it's the latter, I think you should write " c' est vraiment beau" instead. Non, je faisais référence à l'AirBnB, c'est pourquoi j'ai utilisé le pronom. Parfois je fais des trucs vraiment bizarres en français...

jal wrote:

Viktor77 wrote:hypercorrection

Either I don't know what a "hypercorrection" is, or you use it wrongly here...


JAL

Perhaps it is the wrong terminology? Over generalization maybe?

"They says" and "She don't" don't seem very random to me. Use of "says" for non—third-person-singular seems to be pretty common in colloquial speech (like "I says") and use of "don't" for third-person-singular seems very common in many varieties of English; see this post: Historical and contemporar...

I discovered today that my grandfather misconjugates verbs. I think he's always done this but I just never really noticed it. He says things like "they says" and "she don't." I'm curious why he would do this (my grandma certainly does not do it). All I can think is it's because of his very working c...

J'ai écrit , qu ' il y a rien qu'on puisse faire , et personne plus n'écrit plus rien ici? Je ne savais pas , que je suis si influent. I wrote that there's nothing one can do, and noone writes anything here anymore? I didn't know that I'm that influential. ;-) Oui, franchement c'est bizarre. Les ge...

Pole, the wrote:

Europeans are ruled by… Belgium?

Yea, that's why Europeans are perpetually drunk and can never understand each other.

I don't get it. I thought Belgian people drink beer, not alcohol.

You're right, I was heated and made a typo, I should've said perpetually *buzzed.*

Regaining the sovereignty of European nation states, so they won't be ruled by Belgium (who can hardly control their own non-country). Europeans are ruled by… Belgium? Yea, that's why Europeans are perpetually drunk and can never understand each other. But seriously, Cunningham, do you know anythin...

Ars Lande wrote:

cunningham wrote:Vote for Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen!
Europe's last hope!
Destroy the EU!

It may seem surprising to some, but I like the EU.

So do I. I'm attending luncheon with the EU ambassador to the US this afternoon.

I went through the same thing towards the end of my MA program. Things went a little differently (my thesis was not going so well) but the dilemma was similar. Since about freshman year of HS I was convinced I would become a linguistics professor. I love linguistics. I love learning. Etc. but durin...

Does anyone have any advice for how to figure out what you want to do with your life? I'm at that point now. I have several options before me and I don't know what to do and I have to start making decisions soon. I did well on my MA thesis and my committee is very much encouraging me to continue for...

J'habite aux Pays-Bas. Je n'ai a u cune idée qui est ce garçon aux cheveux bleus dont tu parles. Ce n'est pas moi, en tout cas. I live in the Netherlands. I have no idea who this guy with blue hair you're talking about is. It's not me, at least. Merci, Finlay. Je suis en voie de guérison. Et je reç...

Ich war gerade aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen worden, wohaus ich für 3 Tage war. Ich hat einer Notoperation geunterzeiht um meine Gallenblase zu herausnehmen. Sie war sehr infiziert und hat aufgerissen. Ich hatte entsetzliche Schmerzen, daher bin ich sehr erleichtert dass es mir jetzt wieder besser ...

Est-ce que tu sais déjà , ce que tu vas faire avec ton diplôme? [/b] Do you already know what you'll do with your degree? Haha, det er det stort spørgsmål i mit liv. Enten kan jeg opnå min ph.d.-grad eller finde et job i den rigtige verden. Netop nu forbereder jeg begge. Jeg har endu ikke besluttet...

Since we're talking about prescriptivism, shall we talk about what is perhaps the world's most standardized and therefore controlled (in the sense of language authorities exercising control) language, French? The French authorities on language are so stuck up their asses that the Académie française ...

Mes f é licitations! Danke. Nachdem ich mehr Freizeit habe, würde ich gerne einer meiner Sprachen erlernen. Vielleicht mein Deutsch? :) Im Moment, weiss ich noch nicht. Thank you. Now that I have more freetime, I would like to take one of my languages back up. Maybe German? :) For the moment I don'...

*Pauvres orthodoxes! *I'd probably include the article, Les pauvres orthodoxes. J'ai réussi mes examens de Master et j'ai défendu avec succès ma thèse: Idéologies de la différentiation et de la maintenance d’identité francophone dans la commune de Leeuw-Saint-Pierre dans la périphérie de Bruxelles....

Can anyone with a knowledge of Chinese help me satisfy a curiosity? Every single Chinese student I have ever taught French has the same accent feature. I can't really describe it much and I can't share audio files from my students but it involves the letter combination <tr> which in French is /tR/ a...

J'ai certainement une préférence pour le passé simple, mais je pense que le problème dans cette phrase était plutôt sylistique. Il se peut que le "elsewhere" me pertubait. J'arrive sans problème à lire la phrase comme Sal l'explique, mais ce n'était pas le cas les 5 dernières fois que je l'ai lue. ...

*I know your English is present (though I'd suggest perfect "I've been busy") but in French I'd use imperfect "'J'étais occupé." Das klingt für mich schlechter mit dem Perfekt. Ich muss die Antwort komplett umschreiben, damit sie idiomatisch wirkt. Perfect sounds worse to me here. I have to complet...

I don't really want to keep writing in French but I have so little time lately.... Tout d'abord, merci, Linguoboy, pour le lien. Je m'intéresse énormement à découvrir davantage sur l'histoire de ma famille et les conditions économiques et politiques qui ont abouti à tel et tel événement. Merci à Hw...

Wenn ich mich nicht irre, eine Art von Schlesisch. Ich denke, dass die Isoglosse, die Ostniederdeutsch von Ostmitteldeutsch trennte, wenige Kilometer nordlich von ehemalige Posen gelegen ist. If I'm not mistaken, a form of Silesian German. I believe that the isogloss dividing East Low German from E...

Man weiss es nie, bis man es versucht. Niederdeutsch ist nicht so fern von Niederländisch. You never know till you try. Low German isn't that distant from Dutch. Tatsächlich sind die Mennoniten in Friesland entstanden. (Der Menno war in Witmarsum geboren.) Diejenige, die Plautdietsch sprechen, habe...

Ärligt talat, det är tämligen oroande för mig att läsa orden “East Prussia” / „Ostpreussen“ i den moderna sammanhang, därför att i dag, i Polen, denna identitet existerar helt enkelt inte. To be honest, it's quite unsettling for me to read the words “East Prussia” / „Ostpreussen“ in the modern cont...

Hwhatting et Linguoboy, C'est un dialecte de l'extrême-est de Prusse-Orientale, autour de la ville de Goldap qui a été l'une des premières villes invahies par les Soviétiques. C'est vraiment chouette que vous soyez arrivés à le comprendre (à l'exception de quelques mots). Je m'interroge s'il y a de...